Formative assessment is one of the most powerful tools teachers can use to guide learning. Unlike summative assessment, which summarizes achievement at the end of a unit, formative assessment happens ...

If you or your students are surprised by summative assessment results, consider how you’re using formative assessments. Think about a runner preparing for a big race. The goal on race day—the ...

Formative assessment plays a central role in effective teaching. It is not something done at the end of instruction, but rather a continuous process woven into the learning itself. As Bell and Cowie ...

The Teacher-led Learning Circles for Formative Assessment (T3LFA) project facilitated professional learning and development to advance teachers’ leadership of educational improvement with a focus on ...

While feedback is certainly an important component of an effective summative assessment strategy, feedback and formative assessment are intricately linked. Formative assessment consists of “frequent, ...

When designing formative assessments, instructors need to think about aligning the assessed knowledge and skills, as well the assessment format itself, with desired learning outcomes and with the ...

ABSTRACT: This article looks to raise awareness among practitioners and researchers of the potential of the writing plan as an important focus for formative assessment for informing teacher’s planning ...

In the post-COVID pandemic educational setting, assessment offers ways to gain crucial insights into student thinking and learning and the areas requiring support for progress toward learning goals.

Teachers need more support to move testing from a “necessary evil” to a classroom tool, experts say. While summative assessments—like unit quizzes or annual state tests—are used for evaluation and ...

Perhaps my favorite commentary on formative assessment is this analogy offered by education professor Dylan Wiliam: “I flew back from Seattle a few weeks ago. Just imagine what the pilot would have ...

Pupil Progress Pitstops are formative assessment checkpoints built into lessons to help teachers understand where students are in their learning and what they need next. Jessica Richards explains The ...